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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.

Jordan Peterson

Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
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Choice Destiny Mystery Ourselves Potential Reality Transform World
You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Be Yourself Sacrifice Worth
It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
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Believe Dream World Yourself
We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
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Goodness Path Philosophy Stay
You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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Future Past Preparation Remember Yourself
You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
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Death Deep Life Time Wisdom
Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Different Effort Life
The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Future Success
People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Expectation People Togetherness World
When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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Death Politics Sick
There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.
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Deep Failure People Way Wound
You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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Believe Philosophy Thinking Understand Yourself
A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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Act Failure God Necessary Preparation Sin
Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Value Worth Yourself
You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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Act Choice Pay Philosophy Poison Yourself
If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Born Kill Thinking Yourself

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